With the US making no progress on average daily Covid-19 cases last month, officials fear a coming crisis

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Fri, 2020-10-02 09:27 — mike kraft

With the US making no progress on average daily Covid-19 cases last month, officials fear a coming crisis The US made no progress lowering its baseline of Covid-19 cases since last month, despite experts' urgency over the need to reduce cases before entering into the challenging fall and winter seasons. Christina Maxouris, CNN CNN

(CNN) The US made no progress lowering its baseline of Covid-19 cases since last month, despite experts' urgency over the need to reduce cases before entering into the challenging fall and winter seasons.

On September 1, the US averaged about 42,290 new cases and by the beginning of October, the average new cases stood at about 42,785, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. That number is double what it was in June, when lockdown restrictions began to ease. Back then, the US averaged roughly 20,000 new cases a day.

"No matter how you slice it, that's not good," Fauci said last week about the country's baseline. "We're looking at 40,000 new cases per day. That's unacceptable and that is what we've got to get down before we go into the more problematic winter."

The average of new cases shows the virus is still spreading rampantly within US communities....

If 95% of Americans wore masks, around 96,000 lives could be saved by January, according to projections from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).

The institute's director, Dr. Chris Murray, has warned of an explosion of Covid-19 cases in the coming months and a "deadly December" coming up. The IHME projects the US could see more than 3,000 daily deaths by the end of this year.

It also projects more than 370,000 Americans will have died by January. More than 207,000 have already died in the US since the start of the pandemic and more than 7.2 million have been infected.

Local leaders across the US are stressing similar warnings, with 25 states reporting more new Covid-19 cases than the previous week. ...

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